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nbn FTTP 250/100 $4.30 Per Day, 500/200 $4.90 Per Day, 1000/400 $6.40 Per Day (New & Existing Customers) @ Launtel

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Twix on 25/06/2024 - 16:13 launtel.net.au (1764 clicks)
Last edited 26/06/2024 - 17:10

New Launtel pricing for nbn FTTP 250/100, 500/200 and 1000/400.

Speed Daily Price Was
250/100 $4.30 $4.50
500/200 $4.90 $6.40
1000/400 $6.40 $9

Launtel charge per day. This is good if you only need to upload on certain days.

No contract and you don't need an ABN.

Wednesday 26th June 2024 – New retail prices will be applicable for all new customers. Existing customers stay on existing prices for a further 30 days.

Thursday 25th July 2024 – New retail prices come into effect for existing customers and unpausing customers.

*Existing customers can also move to the new pricing from tomorrow as some of the new speed tiers have a lower price but will need to action this themselves.

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Comments

  • bozzonac on 25/06/2024 - 16:16
    +22

    Per day pricing is an interesting way to sell it!

    • animasoIa on 25/06/2024 - 16:23
      +31

      It's great because I can pause my connection while on a holiday ($0 charge), or increase speed for a single day when I need to dump a huge upload.

      • bboz on 25/06/2024 - 16:28
        +1

        yeah this is a valid point.

      • ginger-gin on 25/06/2024 - 16:41
        +20

        Not really, standby is charge as $0.5/day

        • animasoIa on 25/06/2024 - 16:44

          Standby != Pause. I'm on FTTP and never had issues with a pause. I understand it could be more problematic for other modes, hence the standby mode.

          • ginger-gin on 25/06/2024 - 16:52
            +4

            @animasoIa: Launtel used to allow pause with no charge but now they changed it to standby with charge as mentioned. I am curious what do you mean by no issue? Meant they don’t charge for “pause”?

            They change the term can be understandable that some people use Launtel as backup link so if one link down they can have it up immediately hence, now they charge for “standby” fee

            • animasoIa on 25/06/2024 - 16:54
              +5

              @ginger-gin: I can still see pause on the web portal, while standby is a separate plan entirely under modify service.

              Under the services page:

              Plan details
              - Modify Service -> Standby (0/0) plan ($0.50) -> Looks great - update it
              - Pause Service ($0)
              - Disconnect

              • ginger-gin on 25/06/2024 - 16:56
                +1

                @animasoIa: Hmm.. interesting, forgive me as i was out of Launtel for so long. Do you know how long you can pause?

                • animasoIa on 25/06/2024 - 16:58
                  +2

                  @ginger-gin: I'm guessing indefinitely? Not too sure sorry.

                  Although I've read it's problematic due to jumpering but I've never had issues but I'm on FTTP, guessing since the NTD is in my residence, whereas something like FTTB/N has the termination outside and needs to be mapped, and any inactive connection is recycled. Heard that a "pause" in Launtel is actually a disconnect in NBN's eyes.

                • pyr0 on 25/06/2024 - 17:10
                  +1

                  @ginger-gin: I've had mine paused since December

                • lbreav on 25/06/2024 - 18:22
                  +1

                  @ginger-gin: In my experience, as long as you want. I am usually paused for all but one day of each month.

          • gmatht on 25/06/2024 - 23:46
            +2

            @animasoIa: Launtel explains the difference: "The daily standby charge is much reduced and is now a viable alternative to pausing. It keeps your connection alive and avoids some of the pitfalls that can occur when pausing and unpausing a connection. We are also hoping to offer a really slow speed, like 1Mbs, for a reasonable price for those that want to keep their home automation going while they are away." — https://www.launtel.net.au/pricing-changes-following-nbns-ag…

      • jv on 25/06/2024 - 16:46
        +4

        It's great because I can pause my connection while on a holiday

        You'd need to crunch the numbers, because otherwise they are quite expensive…

        • Twix on 25/06/2024 - 16:53
          -1

          It's good for when you go skiing.

          • jv on 25/06/2024 - 16:56
            +2

            @Twix: I can access my wifi from my ski lodge….

        • M00Cow on 25/06/2024 - 17:10
          +1

          it's worth it just to talk with competent tech support. We have HFC in our area go down every other month. I do the usual troubleshooting, check with neighbours, relay what I've done to Tech Support, they log a job with NBN and I'm off the phone in under 5mins. No BS about going thru the steps again.

          actually even better every so often they raise a case with NBN without me even calling them because they've detected an issue (like last week when I was away).

      • Binchicken22 on 25/06/2024 - 18:08
        +3

        Pausing becomes less relevant for a lot of people with their internet connected security systems and things like that, but yeah I understand some people wouldn't have those sort of systems and you can drop to the lowest speed rather than pausing all together I guess.

        Just depends if it's worth the hassle compared to the $49pm 50/20 plan that's available with pronto broadband.

        • bdroid on 25/06/2024 - 19:04

          do you have a link for $49pm 50/20 plan

          • Binchicken22 on 25/06/2024 - 20:04

            @bdroid: Sorry, looks like between when I signed up last week and today they've upped the price to $59.

            Looks like the cheapest 50/20 plan around that mark now.

        • gmatht on 26/06/2024 - 00:27

          The slowest speed on their website I see is 100/20 for $3.20 a day ($97.33/mo). However they document a 1Mbps IoT of $1.65 a day ($50.19/mo) here: https://residential.launtel.net.au/cis/CIS-FTTC-47.pdf

      • devize on 25/06/2024 - 19:10
        +2

        Their CIS doesn't state anything about a pause, just standby ($0.50 per day).

        Would have been a great option for a holiday house, pause whole away and turn on whenever you need it.

      • 1r4n14n on 25/06/2024 - 23:05

        when I need to dump a huge upload load.

        Ftfy.

  • bboz on 25/06/2024 - 16:16
    +9

    Pricing per day? This is doing my head in.

    • aeon on 25/06/2024 - 16:22
      +36

      Just stating the obvious, but, multiply by 365 and divide by 12 to get an approximate equivalent to the monthly figures everyone else has:

      250/100 ~ $130
      500/200 ~ $149
      1000/400 ~ $195

      (give or take some cents)

      • bboz on 25/06/2024 - 16:27
        -6

        Yeah awesome.

        Or… they could just post their prices per month, like everyone else.
        Not sure if they do this specifically for their business customers but they do also provide residential services… so…

        • nachopants on 25/06/2024 - 16:31
          +11

          Launtel doesn't charge monthly. It encourages flexible speeds and the ability to pause when people go away.

          So you tip in $x amount of dollars and it is subtracted daily.

          Not monthly

          • sildosaggins on 26/06/2024 - 10:49

            @nachopants: So I would assume the ability to pause is extremely easy then? Maybe via a single button in their app even? That'd be pretty handy.

      • memez on 25/06/2024 - 16:52
        +1

        ABB has 250/100 up business EOFY for 104 :) ABN required. or Optus for 6months on 1000mbps $68 per month if you factor in the $190 dollars worth of flybuy dollars.

        • glenf on 25/06/2024 - 17:28

          Can you explain the Optus deal in detail please ?

          • memez on 25/06/2024 - 18:44
            +3

            @glenf: Optus EOFY: https://www.optus.com.au/fixed/flybuys

            You sign up to 6months at $99 per month and after 3 months you get 38,000 flybuys points which is worth $190 dollars so 99x6-190 divided 6 = $67.33.

            • creesy on 26/06/2024 - 08:02

              @memez: Do they have a 1000mb plan? All I see is 780mb

              • memez on 26/06/2024 - 08:17

                @creesy: that is the 1000mb plan. thats your typical evening speed but you always get 1000. they just have to say it.

                • creesy on 26/06/2024 - 17:46

                  @memez: Ahhh ok most companies Ive signed up with still say 1000 but have the typical evening speed elsewhere

      • spaceflight on 26/06/2024 - 10:35

        multiply by 365 and divide by 12 to get an approximate equivalent to the monthly figures

        Or just multiply by 30.4

        • memez on 26/06/2024 - 23:07

          i never stick with a company more than six months

      • ribze1 on 26/06/2024 - 20:40
        -2

        Consumers shouldn't have to do that, it should be consistent.

  • nismoau on 25/06/2024 - 16:22
    +13

    Awesome ISP if you only want x days of 1Gbps, or if your ISP goes down for the day. Launtel activate their service on a different UNI-D port (fibre) so you just re-patch your router and bob's your mother's brother. Prepaid, too.

    • Acopic on 25/06/2024 - 16:28
      +8

      He goes by Robert.

  • Brick Tamland on 25/06/2024 - 16:28
    +7

    oh wow per day makes it seem so cheap, what is it per hour?

    • hippo2s on 25/06/2024 - 18:28
      +5

      Why per hour when you can bill per second?

  • nicktork on 25/06/2024 - 16:32
    +6

    I liked Launtel when the cost of slower plans was much cheaper.

    I could just have a 50/20 service most of the time, but increase it to 100/40 or 1000/50 on days when I worked from home. Saved a lot of money doing that, but these days the slower speed plans are much more expensive so I'm not sure it's worthwhile.

    Unfortunately you can't schedule the speed changes to occur automatically. Most times I requested a speed change via the portal it took effect within a few minutes, but there were several occasions when it didn't happen for several hours or until the next business day, which defeated the whole point.

    Good ISP though, they have an active thread in the Whirlpool forums if anyone has questions.

    • khell on 25/06/2024 - 17:04
      +1

      Pretty sure any speed change delay is caused by NBN systems, not Launtel.

      • glenf on 25/06/2024 - 17:30
        +3

        Again the point is that it sometimes is not instant and hence defeats the purpose as an end user.

  • blankie on 25/06/2024 - 16:34
    +1

    how quick does an update take place? is there the ability to do it yourself?

    do you need to wait till the following day to see the update or can you apply it effective immediately but that day's charge will be the more expensive of the two different plans?

    • animasoIa on 25/06/2024 - 16:43
      +1

      Do it myself via their web portal, takes a few minutes but I'm on FTTP, might be different for other modes. Even establishing a connection after pausing it while on holiday is pretty quick, I usually re-establish my "plan" in the Uber ride on the way home.

      • blankie on 25/06/2024 - 16:48

        that's pretty good. i assume an IP addressing (IPv4/6) just comes across and it's only the CVC that changes?

  • frankthetank on 25/06/2024 - 16:40
    -8

    Oh wow, people actually want to pay per day for internet? We be going down per hour and per minute soon.

    • Spendmore on 25/06/2024 - 17:28
      +9

      It used to be per minute once upon a time.

      • Brick Tamland on 25/06/2024 - 18:48
        +1

        haha yes it did too. Totally forgot about that

        • Spendmore on 25/06/2024 - 18:55

          Buy a cd for AOL with 30 minutes on it, it was expensive too.

  • is it though on 25/06/2024 - 16:47
    +3

    Been a Launtel customer for years now, absolute best service I've ever had. The ability to have high upload speed does WONDERS for my plex server. Just hanging out for the day they offer symmetrical speeds. 😀

    • Binchicken22 on 25/06/2024 - 18:11
      -1

      Would want to be considering they are 30%+ more expensive than other high quality providers… I've had FTTP for years and never needed to speak to a tech, so I'm not willing to pay more for it.

      • is it though on 26/06/2024 - 01:08

        Pretty sure they are the only provider in Australia that offers residential NBN upload speeds higher than 50mbps. +30% price for that kind of product, AND the fact you can pause it is a no brainer to me, they could charge 60% more and I'd probably still buy it.

        • chickendog on 26/06/2024 - 08:22

          Pretty sure they are the only provider in Australia that offers residential NBN upload speeds higher than 50mbps.

          There is Leaptel and FutureBroadband as well.

    • adam149 on 25/06/2024 - 19:41
      -8

      (mod - removed accusation)
      Its expensive and the only reason is you can pause it cool.

      • zubzub on 26/06/2024 - 02:42

        Wtf did this chap say to get a mod involved?

        • Binchicken22 on 26/06/2024 - 07:27
          +1

          He just accused the guy of advertising for Launtel (and getting paid for it).

  • OzBerghainer on 25/06/2024 - 16:48

    If I had FTTP, would definitely just cut out the morning coffee and have 1000/400

    • memez on 25/06/2024 - 16:53

      when you think of it like that, its a good point

    • Mechz on 25/06/2024 - 17:38
      +1

      Why not just quit coffee anyway? Biggest waste of money.

    • Binchicken22 on 25/06/2024 - 20:09
      +5

      Out of interest, what for? Just because?

      I'm a fairly techy guy and honestly rarely feel myself wanting for more on a 100/20 plan, even a 50/20 plan really. It's enough for Multiple 4k streams and general internet usage without any noticeable slow down.

      I used to even run a Plex server with Usenet as the download source, but that was about 90% automated, so the difference between a 4k movie taking 20m to download on a 100mb plan and 2m on a 1000mb plan (assuming you could get max speeds from the usenet host) is kind of negligible in that instance.

      • Noppy on 25/06/2024 - 21:33

        What 4k movie is downloading in 2m off usenet? Some terrible quality Charlie Chaplin cam?

        • Binchicken22 on 26/06/2024 - 05:29
          +1

          I was just doing a rough estimation based off a 20GB file size. I actually can't remember exactly how big the x265 4k encodes are but I thought they are usually somewhere around there… And yes I understand there are also 100GB+ 4k encodes for those people who like to pause each frame of the movie and inspect it for artifacts lol.

          • OzBerghainer on 26/06/2024 - 14:14

            @Binchicken22: the biggest benefit of gigabit for me is rapid usenet downloads, hitting over 100 MB/s. Being able to pull episodes and movies in seconds or a few minutes is well worth the money. I recently upgraded to a high end OLED so now if I watch a movie I’ll grab a 4K REMUX which are usually between 50-100GB, so gigabit download makes a world of difference.

            Obviously these 1000/400 plans are overkill but the upload would be awesome to push original quality plex content to my remote users with no bottleneck. The current 50mbps upload cap on HFC means only 2 remote users need to be streaming a decent quality movie before the pipe is jammed

            • amityaaron on 26/06/2024 - 16:31

              @OzBerghainer: 2 remote users on 50mb causing issues?

              I have same 50mb connection (fttp), i stream to 12+ remote users daily without issues.

              Is hfc really that different?

            • Binchicken22 on 26/06/2024 - 18:49

              @OzBerghainer: Yeah I get it, it's funny how much we are willing to pay, just to get "free" movies & tv isn't it 😅.

              I was the same for years, pay $60+ more a month for better internet to download quicker and serve your Plex leaches, pay $ for a few Usenet accounts to different backbones so you have the best chance of completions before DMCA, pay $$ for a server to run Plex, pay $ to keep it running 24/7, pay $$$ for a NAS and more $$$ more filling it with HDDs that are ever filling… So you buy more…

              I would have spent over $2000 easy on these sort of things… And I actually hardly watch movies and tv lol, I justified it as a bit of a hobby.

              With kids now though I no longer feel the need to waste time on all that, so I pay some random in another country $8 USD a month for an emby share with all the content I could ever want, 4k etc (though maybe not the 100gb encodes, personally I'm fine with "Netflix quality" 4k).

      • Scrobo on 26/06/2024 - 00:09

        It's the upload speeds that I want, It's so frustrating that there isn't an affordable 400/400 connection instead of 1000/20.
        I need fast downloads, but also have large uploads to push a few times a month.

        • Binchicken22 on 26/06/2024 - 18:59

          Yeah it's annoying, they wanna keep those plans expensive because they know businesses will pay the big $$$.

    • macrocephalic on 26/06/2024 - 12:38

      I have FTTP, I bought a coffee machine and have 100/40. I'm not seeing much incentive to go for faster than that yet.

  • Soldier on 25/06/2024 - 17:03

    any price movements on the other plans?

    • Twix on 25/06/2024 - 17:10
      +3

      https://imgur.com/a/GNQPHjA

      • FLICKIT on 25/06/2024 - 18:55

        and FW goes up again :(

        • Twix on 25/06/2024 - 18:58

          Yeah by 10c. Maybe because FW Plus has changed to 100/20 (was 75/10).

  • Axelstrife on 25/06/2024 - 17:06
    +7

    God the IQ of certain people commenting here must be single digits.

    They charge per day and offer the ability to change your service speed so that people can up the speed if they need it one day and you can change it back the next day.

    Takes 30 second to log in and change your speed, they charge the difference for that day between what speed you where on and what you are going to then your new price per day will be whatever speed you chose.

    • neosin on 25/06/2024 - 19:22

      This is completely new to me!

      That's amazing if you can just increase your speed for a day and only takes 30 sec to take effect!

      Can someone confirm it is that quick for the speed change to take effect?

      • Axelstrife on 25/06/2024 - 20:54
        +1

        Sorry i should of been more clear, it takes 30 second to login and change it on the website then a few minutes for it to take effect.

        I personally never had to restart my router but i cannot say its like that with all routers.

        • gmatht on 25/06/2024 - 23:53
          +1

          I can't see why you would have to restart your router. The NBN box always offers a 1000/1000 ethernet link to the router, it just doesn't saturate that link unless you pay stupid dollars.

    • adam149 on 25/06/2024 - 19:41
      -2

      The IQ issue is the people that think this is a good deal

  • amityaaron on 25/06/2024 - 17:13

    I dont get the deal with Launtel.

    Per month, even on the slowest speed, its still more expensive than other providers.

    100/20 launtel - $94
    100/20 leaptel - $74

    using the slowest speed as a baseline, it will always work out more expensive.

    Whats the benefit here im missing?

    • GreenRomeo on 25/06/2024 - 17:16

      I think the point here is to use them as the backup for when your main one is down, or you happen to need to download or upload a large amount of data within a short time.

      • amityaaron on 25/06/2024 - 17:20
        +2

        so everyone only signing up for temporary reasons?

        idk…surely im missing something as to why these prices are considered "good".

        • dtc on 25/06/2024 - 17:57

          I could use them at my holiday house (if it actually had internet but whatever). Good for airbnb too I expect, or your pied-à-terre. 250/100 if you use it less than 50% of the days, then you can make a saving

    • xers on 25/06/2024 - 17:27

      Let's say I want to download my Steam games quickly using a 1 Gbps connection. However, I want to do that for, say, only 2 - 3 days a month and the rest of the time I don't really need a 1gbps connection. With Launtel, I could change my speed to 1 Gbps for those 3 days and still pay under $100/month, whereas most other ISP charge over $100/month for a 1gbps which is not utilised most of the time.

      • amityaaron on 25/06/2024 - 17:30

        Yeah, I understand that launtel would be ideal in such temporary scenarios.

        So no one here would be using launtel as their primary ISP?

        • xers on 25/06/2024 - 17:31

          No, the other days of the month you would still be using them but just on a slower and cheaper connection.

          • amityaaron on 25/06/2024 - 17:35
            +1

            @xers: thats what im saying.
            The "slower and cheaper" speeds is still more expensive than most other providers.

            • xers on 25/06/2024 - 17:41

              @amityaaron: But the point is other providers don’t allow me to change the connection speed to suit my needs on a daily basis like Launtel.

              • amityaaron on 25/06/2024 - 17:47

                @xers: going for a plan with a higher download/upload with another provider is still cheaper than launtel if you were to swap on as need basis.

                100/40 leaptel is $84 a month.
                Those speeds would be more than enough for a basic home user.

                • xers on 25/06/2024 - 17:55

                  @amityaaron: Not if you want to do it several times a month. Once you move to a different provider, you either have to pay for the whole month or give 30 days notice before leaving them.

                  • Binchicken22 on 25/06/2024 - 20:46

                    @xers: Exetel/super loop give you 5 free speedboost days per month (bankable up to 30), that upgrade you to the next speed from whatever you plan is, 100/20 goes to 250/25, 250/25 to 1000 etc.

                    I feel that is much better value for 95% of people. The only real use case I see for launtel with these price's is for a holiday house… But honestly, if you've got a holiday house, are you really looking to save a few $ by micromanaging your NBN connection lol.

      • Averell on 25/06/2024 - 19:20

        With the cheapest plan $4.5/day, how could you get <$100/month?

    • dontpanic on 25/06/2024 - 19:47
      +2

      I use them at the family holiday home. Pause the service when no-one is there and pay only for the days that people are using the home. It quite literally saves me hundreds of dollars.

      • devize on 25/06/2024 - 22:40

        Is it still possible on current plans? Their CIS suggests a minimum of $0.50 per day on standby with no free 'pause' option.

        • dontpanic on 25/06/2024 - 23:14
          +1

          I literally just did it, so yes.

          The downside of "pausing" is that your service is technically disconnected, so if you're on a service like FTTN, the line will look dead to any techs working on the node/pillar and they may physically disconnect your lines if they need space on the node/pillar for a new connection.

          This happened to me once (shortly after my first pause) but hasn't happened in the 9 months since. It took a 2 days to get it reconnected (had to wait for a tech to be in the area again - regional location, so may be quicker in metro zones).

          The standby option negates this - it keeps the line active and allows you to quickly move it to a functioning service. It can take longer to "unpause".

          For my purposes, the pause works. If I know I'm going to be using the holiday house, I'll unpause a few days early and put it on standby until I arrive. That way, if there's any issue with the line, I can get it resolved before I get there.

        • macrocephalic on 26/06/2024 - 12:42

          Even if you pay 50c/day for standby, then that's only $15/m and then whatever days you actually use it. If you have a residence that you only use one week a month then you can pay $30 for the days you're there, and $11 for the ones you aren't. That's a bargain. I think I might try to convince my relative to do this with her holiday house that we sometimes use.

    • realist123 on 26/06/2024 - 11:26

      Upload speeds: for people who actually use the internet for work

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